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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Tori Amos

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Believe Order Powerful
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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Giving Pioneers Taught
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Drunk Moisture Water Way
There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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Home Plant Video
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Cards Eye Player Table
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

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